| Location: | MSV Regalia, Schiehallion and Foinaven Fields |
| Position: | Faroe-Shetland Channel |
| Depth: | 508m |
| Water Temperature: | No data |
| Dates: | 2003 |
| Industry Partners | |
| Gas & Oil Company | BP |
| ROV Operator: | Oceaneering |
| Rig operator: | Transocean |
| SERPENT Representatives: | Dr. Ian Hudson |
Mission Story
The first SERPENT mission on to the MSV Regalia arose through discussions with BP and the BP Biodiversity Research Fellow at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. BP identified potential down-time during their ROV operations offshore that could be used more effectively to carry out "good science". The concept was taken on by the
DEEPSEAS group, and they produced a series of simple experiments to be placed on the seabed. Ian Hudson, at the time working on his PhD examining deep-sea deposit feeding, developed a set of cages to be deployed by an ROV, where deposit feeders could be placed to monitor feeding rates using fluorescent tracer particles (Luminophores).
The successful trials on board the MSV Regalia resulted in several new discoveries in the fields of decapod ecology, feeding rates in deposit feeders, and predatory behaviour in the Anglerfish.
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